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Connecting migration studies and the theory of valuation, this collection offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of transnational music practices. Conceiving music as a practice not confined to audibility, the contributions reveal how music emerges in concrete situations through people, objects, techniques, meanings, and emotions in different parts of the world and during different historic periods. Values are thereby created and shared, and creative processes are evaluated in terms of diversity, space and exchange.
This book presents cases of contemporary, popular and traditional music, festivals and trade fairs, albums and band projects, shedding light on the tensions between the transfer, reconstruction and creation of music in different contexts.
Glaucia Peres da Silva (Dr.) works as assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her research focuses on global markets and music.
Konstantin Hondros works as a research associate at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research focuses on evaluation, music, and copyright.
Frontmatter 1
Content 5
Introduction-Music practices across borders 7
Valuation in a reversed economy 41
Culture, creativity and practice 61
"Come and expose yourself to the fantastic music from around the world" 85
From desire for recognition to desire for independence 105
The invention of African art music 127
Contemplating musical life in Tunisia under the French protectorate-the society and challenges 151
The construction of an Italian diasporic identity in the city of Buenos Aires at the turn of the 19th century 167
Brazilian grooves and cultured clichés 191
About the authors 211